Triumph‘s Rik Emmett revealed that he was not too long ago hospitalized with a nasty case of meals poisoning.
Fortunately, the guitarist was in a position to battle the nice battle and totally get well.
“I can cross off ‘Ambulance Journey to Emergency’ from my bucket record,” Emmet revealed in a Fb submit Thursday afternoon. “Who knew that meals poisoning might begin with vertigo so unhealthy one imagines they’re having a stroke?”
After spending eight hours within the emergency room tethered to a cellular IV dolly – by no means surrendering, after all – Emmett says the expertise was humbling: “You will acquire all types of perspective for humility and gratitude, as you witness of us having far, far worse days than your self.”
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Fortunately, Emmett studies that he was in a position to get well in time to get dwelling for a sizzling cup of late night time tea. Which is sweet as a result of he is bought a brand new album named Ten Telecaster Tales to advertise.
The all-instrumental Ten Telecaster Tales might be launched on March 1. It’s at the moment being supplied in an especially restricted version of 200 copies, and comes inside a guide that features what’s described as “essentially the most complete try at liner notes within the historical past of electrical instrumental fingerstyle guitar albums.”
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He can even carry out two sold-out reveals on the Redwood Theatre in Toronto on April tenth and eleventh. The live performance will function a whole efficiency of the Ten Telecaster Tales album, after which he might be joined by his longtime collaborator Dave Dunlop “for some outdated Troubs duo favorites and Triumph tunes.”
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